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"Information Note for Participants" and Side-Events Registration for Part Two of the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties and concurrent meetings of the Parties to the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/IS/90500 (2022-049)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, international organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

2-day South Asian Consultation on Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework begins

New Delhi : A two-day meeting of the South Asian Consultation Meeting on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework was held in New Delhi today.

2023 United Nations High-Level Political Forum

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/ML/GD/90794 (2023-004)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points and ABS Focal Points

5 things you need to know about the new global framework to manage nature

Climate action failure, biodiversity loss and infectious diseases counted as the top three risks in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report. It is imperative that leaders and citizens alike adopt a systems view for the economic and societal transformation needed today so we build the worl ...

78 financial institutions managing more than $10 trillion in assets urging governments to halt & reverse biodiversity loss.

Together with Ceres, Inc., the Public Policy Advocacy working group of the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation coordinated this statement directed to the Global Biodiversity Framework negotiating governments ahead of COP15

A Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Aims at Reinforcing Efforts to Save World’s Ecosystem

The UN’s highly-touted socio-economic agenda, which lays out an ambitious global plan for “people, planet and prosperity”, has been dominated by “goals, targets and deadlines.” But regrettably, most developing nations are struggling to reach these goals—due largely to a shortfall in much-needed ...

A global deal for nature is a chance for China to show historic global leadership

If we needed more proof of our biodiversity crisis, a herd of wild elephants marching through China has been doing the job in the most heart-warming way possible.

A spotlight on mountains in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

This message was delivered at a webinar on “Towards the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Retrospective reflection and setting priority actions for the mountains” organized by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).

Advancing the Biodiversity Agenda: Ministerial Roundtable on main outcomes of the 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference and the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework: A high-level event to be held at the margins of UNEA-4, Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday 14 March 2019, 2pm to 4pm

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/NP/87989 (2019-032)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, relevant organizations

African Governments Urged To Take Part In Drafting Of Biodiversty Document

The Acting Executive Secretary for the United Nations Convention on the Bio Diversity (CBD) Ms Elizabeth Maruma Mrema has called on African Governments, to create awareness and take part in the drafting and negotiation of the UN Biodiversty document amongst its’ people. Ms Mrema was speakin ...

Analysis: Nature-pact goal to protect 30% of land and ocean hangs in balance

The central pledge of a planned new global nature pact - to protect 30% of the planet's land and seas - is in doubt, with some biodiversity-rich nations refusing to commit because of jitters over funding and implementation, officials have warned.

Australia joins global biodiversity alliance

The Australian Conservation Foundation has welcomed the Morrison government’s recognition of the need for a strong global agreement at this year’s UN biodiversity conference with its decision to join the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People.

Avoid repeating old mistakes

Since the founding of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, member states have regularly agreed on global strategies to bring the increasingly rapid loss of biodiversity to a halt. In 2002, the heads of state adopted the so-called 2010 biodiversit ...

Biodiversity faces its make-or-break year, and research will be key

Biodiversity is being lost at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction. But the United Nations decade-old plan to slow down and eventually stop the decline of species and ecosystems by 2020 has failed. Most of the plan’s 20 targets — known as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets — have not been met.

Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs

Global support is growing for the 30 × 30 movement — a goal to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030. In May, the G7 group of wealthy nations endorsed the commitment to this target that had been made by more than 50 countries in January. It is likely to be the headline goal when parties to the Conv ...

Biodiversity: world leaders are negotiating new targets to protect nature by 2030 – the story so far

This online event will be followed by an in-person one in Geneva in January 2022, and negotiations will formally end in April 2022 in Kunming, China, where the world will agree a post-2020 global biodiversity framework with targets for the next decade.Most countries 196 in total, with the US bei ...

Briefing by the Co-Chairs on the outcomes of part II of the third meeting and preparations for the fourth meeting of the Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

7 - 8 June 2022, Online

Briefing by the Co-Chairs on the outcomes of the third meeting and preparations for the fourth meeting of the Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/PT/JB/90353 (2022-032)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs, indigenous people and local communities, and other stakeholders

Briefing webinar 1 on agenda item 5 relating to the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework process of the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

19 January 2021, Online

Briefing webinar 2 on agenda item 9 on enhancing reporting and review mechanisms with a view to strengthening the implementation of the Convention, of the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

21 January 2021, Online

Briefing webinar 3 on agenda item 3 on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: scientific and technical information to support the review of the updated goals and targets, and related indicators and baselines of the Twenty-fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice

26 January 2021, Online

Briefing webinar on the joint meeting agenda and organization of work of the resumed sessions of SBSTTA-24, SBI-3 and WG2020-3

8 February 2022, Online

Briefings by the Co-Chairs of the Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework on the Reflections Report

8 December 2021, Online - 7 am EST and 7 pm EST

Briefings by the WG2020 Co-Chairs on the First Draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/PT/89747 (2021-050)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs, indigenous people and local communities, and other stakeholders

CBD Side Event at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) 2022

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/PT/JB/90432 (2022-042)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and relevant organizations

COP15: Key outcomes for nature loss and climate change from UN talks in Geneva

Preparatory talks for a major UN biodiversity summit, COP15, came to a close in Geneva on Tuesday evening, with countries agreeing to meet again in Nairobi in an attempt to solve issues surrounding a global deal to reverse nature loss.

Call for SA to join 30% conservation target to stem nature loss, climate change

Scientists, conservationists and youth leaders are calling on the government to back a draft United Nations target to double globally protected areas to stem the loss of nature and reduce the effects of climate change.

Change in venue: Second meeting of the Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, 24-29 February 2020 – Rome, Italy

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/JMF/88471 (2020-014)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations, cc: SBSTTA Focal Points

China pushes new global biodiversity fund to help secure nature accord

Developing nations say they need more finance to conserve their natural environments—and China has floated the idea of a fund to channel billions of dollars to protect biodiversity.

Climate Change: Researchers call for robust goal for species in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Scientists urge that a clear, unambiguous goal for preventing human-induced species extinctions and stabilising populations must be front and centre in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework – currently formulated draft iterations carry a serious risk of failure.

Closing the Nature-Finance Gap

Although the biodiversity crisis is intimately linked to the climate one, the financing to address it is woefully inadequate. With a new global biodiversity plan now in the works, the world has an opportunity – and a duty – to start making up for lost time.

Code of Conduct to Prevent Harassment at CBD Events

Reference: SCBD/OES/WY/90182 (2022-016)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, international organizations, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and relevant organizations

Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says

Strictly protecting 30% of Earth’s land and sea by 2030 would result in food production shortfalls, and would render a fifth of mammals and a third of birds at high risk of extinction, according to a new study.

Conservation has a Human Rights Problem. Can the New UN Biodiversity Plan Solve it?

For decades, if not centuries, Maasai cattle farmers in Northern Tanzania have reared their animals alongside iconic wildlife species like cheetahs, lions and black rhinos.

Consultation Workshop of Biodiversity-related Conventions on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

10 - 12 June 2019, Bern, Switzerland

Consultations on the establishment of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Fund by the Global Environment Facility

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/YX/GT/90953 (2023-041)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points

Date extension: Thematic Consultation on Transparent Implementation, Monitoring, Reporting and Review Mechanism, 20-22 February 2020 - Kunming, China and Thematic Consultation on Capacity Building and Technical and Scientific Cooperation for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, 1-2 March 2020 - Kunming, China

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/NS/ET/CP/88538 (2019-109)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points, IPLCs and relevant organizations, cc: SBSTTA Focal Points

Delegates hash out UN biodiversity goals online

Paris: Country delegates met online on Monday to start tackling a draft agreement for the pandemic-delayed COP15 global summit on biodiversity, days after the new summit date of April 2022 was set.

Discussions open in Rome towards a Landmark New UN Biodiversity Framework

24 February 2020. Over 1000 delegates from more than 140 countries started negotiations today at FAO headquarters, Rome on the zero draft of a landmark post-2020 global biodiversity framework and targets for nature to 2030.

Documentation for the Second Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/JBM/88603 (2020-004)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations, cc: SBSTTA Focal Points

Documents for the Fifth meeting of the Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, including the report of the meeting of the Informal Group

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/KM/90635 (2022-065)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Draft UN biodiversity agreement falls short, says WWF

In response to the publication today of the first draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, WWF expresses concern that the world is failing to adequately respond to the nature crisis, thereby also jeopardising our ability to tackle the climate crisis and endangering the resources we ...

Due to the ongoing situation following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in consultation with the Government of the People’s Republic of China, the COP (Conference of the Parties) Presidency and the Co-Chairs of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (WG2020-2), has decided that the second meeting of the Working Group will take place in Rome, Italy at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the same dates, 24 – 29 February 2020.

EU environment ministers on new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and pollinator protection

On the second day of the informal meeting of EU environment and climate change ministers in Slovenia, discussions addressed the new proposal of global targets for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The ministers also discussed the challenges of jointly strengthening pollinator protecti ...

Egypt Exerted Tireless Efforts to Develop Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework - Minister

Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad said Egypt has exerted tireless efforts as the President of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 14) to develop the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, despite the critical conditions that the world faced given the b ...

Elizabeth Mrema: ‘A lot still has to be done for a biodiversity agreement’

After two years of postponements and a change in format, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15 biodiversity talks will now take place in Montreal, Canada, this December. There is still much work to do in the coming months, if countries are to secure a new global agreement on protecti ...

Ethiopia: Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework Aims to End Biodiversity Crises

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has enacted a new draft on biodiversity, The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework which is expected to be adopted during the 15th Conference of Parties on biodiversity (COP 15) in China. The aim of the framework is to halt the loss o ...

Expert Workshop to Develop Recommendations for Possible Gender Elements in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

11 - 12 April 2019, New York, United States of America

Expert workshop on the monitoring framework for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

29 June - 1 July 2022, Bonn, Germany

Experts show mixed confidence in multilateral cooperation to tackle common global issues

May 22 marks the International Day for Biological Diversity in 2021, against the backdrop of a complicated geopolitical landscape amid a global economic recovery, experts suggest that China could leverage more innovative, cost-effective factors while developing renewable energy.